ACETONE Cindy 1993

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	Come On	5:59
	Pinch	3:29
	Sundown	5:53
	Chills	4:14
	Endless Summer	6:23
	Intermission	3:28
	Louise	7:28
	Don't Cry	5:44
	No Need Swim	6:21
	Barefoot On Sunday	5:12

CRANES Loved 1994

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	Shining Road	3:50
	Pale Blue Sky	3:29
	Rêverie	4:00
	Lilies	3:44
	Are You Gone?	2:56
	Loved	3:09
	Beautiful Friend	3:12
	Bewildered	4:21
	Come This Far	4:09
	Paris And Rome	6:03
	In The Night	4:12

13TH HOLE Headache 1992

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1. Face
2. Crazy
3. He is Ill
4. Wave
5. Stand in Line
6. Soft Sound
7. Mr. Know It All
8. City
9. Mrs. Peel

ACETONE York Boulevard 2000

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	Things Are Gonna Be Alright	3:51
	Wonderful World	5:01
	19	4:10
	Vibrato	4:22
	Like I Told You	4:36
	It's A Lie	4:45
	Bonds	5:57
	One Drop	5:55
	Vaccination	6:37
	Stray	6:25

ACETONE If You Only Knew 1995

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	If You Only New	4:08
	I Don't Really Care	3:11
	In The Light	3:16
	I've Enjoyed As Much Of This As I Can Stand	3:39
	The Final Say	3:51
	When You're Gone	5:53
	Hound Dog	3:41
	99	3:08
	What I See	3:28
	Nothing At All	3:59
	Esque	4:46
	Always Late	5:44

ANTIETAM Everywhere Outside 1991

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[+] by Stewart Mason

One of the more underrated bands on the early-'90s indie rock scene, Antietam is the South's answer to Yo La Tengo, injecting the studied urban coolness of the Hoboken trio with some fiery Southern rock brio, especially in frontwoman Tara Key's impressive guitar work, which at times suggests a post-punk Lynyrd Skynyrd making nice with Neil Young after that whole "Sweet Home Alabama" thing. Like Yo La Tengo, however, this trio did their growing up in public. Key and her bass-playing boyfriend Tim Harris began the 1980s in their native Louisville, KY, as one-half of the Pylon-like post-punkers the Babylon Dance Band. Although extremely locally popular and able to tour throughout the Midwest and eastern seaboard, the foursome only managed to release one single, 1981's "When I'm Home," before splitting in 1983. The following year, Key and Harris formed the less antic quartet Antietam with second bassist Wolf Knapp and drummer Michael Weinert. With Key taking over vocals as well as lead guitar, Antietam had a vaguely folk-rock air in their earliest incarnation, akin to Chronic Town-era R.E.M. or Like This-era dB's. The band's self-titled 1985 debut, with Harris and Knapp playing twin basses under Key's angular, Roger Miller-style (Mission of Burma, not "King of the Road") guitar, is an odd but accessible piece of mid-'80s indie rock. Weinert, clearly the band's weakest player based on the first album, was replaced by the far more competent Sean Mulhall (the duo's former Babylon Dance Band compadre) in time for the much-improved follow-up, 1986's Music From Elba. Although the R.E.M. comparison no longer holds up, there's a moody, near-psychedelic feel to this quietly intense album that shows a definite similarity between Antietam and the mid-'80s Hoboken bands such as the Feelies and the Individuals. Perhaps sensing this musical kinship, Key and Harris left Louisville in the late '80s to settle in New York. Antietam took a couple of years to settle in their new environment, making the friendship of Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley in the interim. Yo La Tengo covered Antietam's burning "Orange Song" on their 1989 album President Yo La Tengo, and Kaplan and Hubley produced Antietam's third album, 1990s Burgoo. Although again somewhat hampered by another less-than-stellar drummer, Charles Schultz, Antietam made the transition from quartet to trio (Knapp had stayed in Louisville to return to college) with surprising grace. Key offset the loss of the interesting sonic patterns created by Harris and Knapp's double basses by focusing more on overtones and feedback, and the noisier sound fits the more aggressive songs perfectly. After the closet-cleaning release of a second Babylon Dance Band single, "Someday," in late 1990, Key and Harris hooked up with a steady drummer at last; with Josh Madell on board, Antietam finally had a stable lineup with three similarly gifted players. The improvement on 1991's Everywhere Outside is immediately obvious; Key's guitar playing in particular is outstanding, continuing the aggression of Burgoo while adding more finesse. An absolutely smoking live set recorded at CBGB in July of that year was released as Antietam Comes Alive! in 1992; a selection of songs from the two most recent albums plus two new songs and a rave-up cover of Patti Smith's "Ask the Angels" with guest rhythm guitar by Chris O'Rourke of Sleepyhead, Antietam Comes Alive! is one of the band's better efforts. After that triumph, Key and Harris unexpectedly joined up with Mulhall and singer Chip Nold to temporarily reform the Babylon Dance Band and belatedly release their debut album, 1994's Four on One. Including both tracks from the 1990 single along with new songs recorded by New York noisemaster Wharton Tiers, Four Into One has the feel of old friends horsing around in the studio, down to a sloppy Shadows of Knight cover. Quickly regrouping with Madell, Antietam recorded possibly their best album, 1994's Rope-a-Dope. Continuing to develop the musical strengths of the previous two albums, Antietam opened up their sound on this album, creating a more dynamic and varied sound. For the first time, Harris and Madell share in the lead vocals, singing two songs apiece. During Antietam's 1993 break, Key recorded her first solo album, the Harris-produced Bourbon County, in a pair of sessions, each featuring entirely different players from the other. When the album was released in 1995, it was well enough received that the next year's more focused follow-up, Ear and Echo, was also released as a Tara Key solo album although the band consists of Key, Harris, Madell, and, interestingly, former Antietam second bassist Wolf Knapp. A single, "Alibi," was released under the Antietam name in 1996, but the name was retired after that. Key collaborated with Eleventh Dream Day's Rick Rizzo on 2000's Dark Edson Tiger, with contributions from Harris, Janet Beveridge Bean of Eleventh Dream Day, and Sue Garner of Run On. Separately, Harris played cello on select tracks for Yo La Tengo's An Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (2000) and Summer Sun (2003). He also had a brief stint recording and touring with The Special Pillow. Madell added drums to the first two Retsin albums, Salt Lick (1995) and Egg Fusion (1996). Harris and Key joined Tara Jane O'Neil for The Naysayer's debut, 2000's Deathwhisker. As The Special Pillow prepared to release their self-titled debut in 2004, Antietam had already regrouped for what would be their first album in ten years. With O'Neil joining them at the production board, Victory Park was released in April on Carrot Top. The double-disc Opus Mixtum arrived in early 2008. By contrast, 2011's Tenth Life was one of the band's poppiest efforts.

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AREA Fragments of the Morning 1990

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by Jason Ankeny

Formed in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, Area borrowed the ethereal dream-pop sound of Britain's 4AD label while adding their own distinctively Midwestern touches, most notably the gentle vocals of frontwoman Lynn Canfield. Founded in 1986, the group's core included Canfield, guitarist Henry Frayne and multi-instrumentalist Steve Jones; they debuted later that year with White Canvas New Hope, followed in 1988 by Radio Caroline. The Perfect Dream appeared in 1988 as well, with Between Purple and Pink issued a year later. After 1990's Fragments of the Morning, Area disbanded; Canfield and Frayne soon reunited in the Moon Seven Times.

ASEXUALS Fitzjoy 1996

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by Charlotte Dillon

Punk rockers The Asexuals were formed in 1983 in Montreal, Canada. Guitarist Sean Friesen, bassist T.J. Collins, and drummer Paul Remington were all members of the group. A number of talented bassists served time with them off and on along the way, including Dom Pompeo, John Kastner, Blake Cheetah, and Yuri Mohacsi. In 1984, The Asexuals released a debut single and a debut album, Be What You Want, to a growing fan base that was waiting for more. The recordings received good reviews, but didn't capture the band at its very best, which happened to be on-stage before an energized audience. Over the next few years the group toured Canada and Europe, opening for major crowd draws like PiL and D.O.A. The Asexuals also completed a number of other albums after that debut. The last, Fitzjoy, was released through the Cargo Records label in 1997. Some of band's tunes mixing hardcore attitude with pop-punk are "Time Will Tell," "Throw Me a Line," "World for the Taking," and "Language of Men."

ACETONE I Guess I Would 1994

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A1		Juanita	2:32
A2		The Late John Garfield Blues	2:23
A3		I Guess I Would	3:17
A4		Sometime You Just Can't Win	2:54
A5		All For The Love Of A Girl	2:58
A6		How Sweet I Roamed	3:05
B1		Border Lord	10:58

 

FIVE EIGHT The Angriest Man 1993

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1		My Sister Is So Strange	4:30
2		Not Zeppelin	5:26
3		Ralph Newman	4:43
4		Lifer	3:41
5		Depressed All The Time	3:39
6		The Needle And The Damage Done	3:40
7		A Man Is A Pent Up Thing	8:37

NERO'S ROME Togetherly 1994

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1		We Play Girlfriends	3:34
2		Smoother	4:46
3		Open Secret	3:37
4		Togetherly	4:14
5		Sodium Light	2:06
6		If You'd Listen	2:24
7		Pulling In Low	4:44
8		Japanese Train	1:52
9		I'm Your Dad	2:32
10		Shucking The Baby	4:58
11		Sunshineface Girl	2:22
12		Frauck X	4:20

FLOUR Luv 713 1990

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by John Bush

Rifle Sport bassist Peter Conway (aka Flour), produced four albums of Midwestern industrial-punk for Touch & Go Records in the early '90s: Flour, LUV 713, Machinery Hill, and Fourth And Final.